Apple would possibly launch 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional in September

Apple is making ready to utterly overhaul its lineup of MacBook Professional units.

That is in keeping with a brand new report by Digitimes (by way of MacRumors), which claims that Apple plans to launch new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional in September.

These new units will likely be fairly a radical redesign of present fashions (particularly the 13-inch MacBook Professional, which is probably going to get replaced with the 14-inch variant). They’re going to each have new, Mini-LED shows and a quicker processor (and the primary successor to Apple’s M1 chip).

The 16-inch MacBook Professional is at present solely being shipped with an Intel chip, which is one thing that may certainly change sooner or later, as Apple plans to utterly swap to its personal silicon sooner or later. It is essentially the most highly effective laptop computer within the firm’s lineup, that means that it will require a considerably extra highly effective chip than Apple’s M1, which helps a most of 16GB of RAM and just one further, high-resolution show.

When it comes to different new options, the brand new MacBook Professional fashions are rumored to return with a brand new, flat-edged design, in addition to extra ports, together with a reminiscence card reader and HDMI.

This isn’t the primary time we hear about these new units; in actual fact, rumors about them have been flying about for years. What’s altering is the discharge date, as Apple appears to be consistently pushing again the launch date.

In Could, Bloomberg reported that Apple is planning to launch new MacBooks, together with the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professional, as early as this summer season, although the identical outlet later stated Apple is not more likely to launch any main new merchandise till the autumn.